Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-31
A GREAT GAME
OF BAsE BALL PLAYED ON THE ISLAND
PARK YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
The Handles Defeat the Ohio Valleys by Score
Of So to Some Points About
the Game

That was great base ball game between
the Panhandles of Simon Baer's Sons, ana
the Ohio Valleys, of Joseph Spiedel * Co.
Yesterday afternoon, on the Island Park,
if you don't care what you say. Quite O
large attendance was present, the admis-
sion being free, but even then the
audience didn't seem 20 be struck on the
game.
The Ohio Valleys went to bat with The
Pan-Handles playing as follows: Goudy'
c.; Trainor, p; Day, s.; Beall, h.; Ketzer'
=; Baer, 5; Hess, r.; Leonhart l.; Bosiey'
m. COwan went to the hat first and man
AGED to pound a pretty good hit, which
realized him one run OH errors. The size
retired without making another run.
When the Pan Handles came to bat the
other side was located rs follows: Cowan,
c.; Gallagher, p; Major, s.; Laughhn, Il
Hupp, ,; VOgel, ); Bachman, l.; Todd, m;
Geyer, T. $500.
Cloudy opened the ball by hitting a-gcod
one and the inning ended after ten scores
had been made. This sort of ratified the
other bows and when they went to bat
Trainers fine pitching put the side out IN
great hurry. In their half OF the second the
Pan-Handles pounded out ten more runs,
which made them 81 to 4. The Ohio Val,
lev bows began to feel somewhat tired
at this stage of the game, and Gallagher
left the pitchers box, Major being substl-
tuted in the next inning. The Ohio val
leys made three more scores III the thlru,
then they stopped and went into the field.
Major did not do much good with the
ball and the PanHandles pounded four
runs of him. The Ohio Valleys goose
eyed, being unable to bat Trainer, and
they kept on doing the same thing
throughout the game. In the fourth
inning the Panhandles made eight more
runs which ran the score up to -.
About this time the grand stand began
to clear rapidly. The people couldn't
stand such uninteresting ball playing.
The errors then followed thick and fast,
especially OH the Ohio Valley side. A
man could make a base hit and the ball
would be felded so badly that he man
aged to get to second or third.
In the fourth Baer made base hit and
it Jared his arm so badly that lie had to
put another man in his place. In the
| fifth the Pan-H Handles again made eleven
runs, in the sixth seven, and in the sew
enth eight, the Ohio Valleys making
goose eggs right along, although they put
four pitchers into the box in the seventh
nings. The score now stood 5S to 4, and
the rain coming up stopped the game, or 1t
might have been good deal worse. The
loss of the game WAS due in great part to
the mutled balls by Todd ut third, and the
superior battery work of the Pan-Handles.
Several of the Ohio Valleys best men were
also unable to play.
There were number Of arnica bottles
on the field, besides an ambulance to carry
the wounded men home. Will Day had
several pounds of chopped beef, which he
intended to use OH his hands, and-well
other places. Fink, Of the Ohio Valleys,
was the first man TO knock n home run,
which was followed by Day, Trainer and
Beall on the PanHandle's side. The first
two home runs are to he rewarded by a
suit of clothes apiece, and the third by an
overcoat, the present of Mr.. Marcus
Baer, and the boys are cOrrespondingly
happy.
In the sixth inning Laird, the umpire,
began to get hungry and he went on q
strike for pay by the. day instead of game,
and quit on being refused, ~ il was
thought Mt the time that two days would
not be sufficient To finish the game, 80
Baggs was substituted. lie went in to
catch for the Ohio Valleys in the seventh,
when COwan was struck in the jaw and
knocked out. The only two flies caught
were by Geyer and Fink, and they were
handles.
The Pan Handles got revenge on the Ohio
Valleys for their defeat last year, when the
score stood II to II in favor of the Ohio
Valleys, in. five innings. Such is the
reverses of base ball. 1t is understood that
a champagne supper awaits the winners Of
| Yesterdays game.